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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href="http://inthelibrarywithacomicbook.org/post/76605601631/in-episode-6-jack-and-amanda-discuss#_=_"><img src="/sites/default/files/blue-podcast-2.gif" alt="" width="70" height="22" align="left" hspace="8" /></a> In <a href="http://inthelibrarywithacomicbook.org/post/76605601631/in-episode-6-jack-and-amanda-discuss#_=_">this new episode of their podcast series <strong>In the Library with a Comic Book</strong></a>, Amanda Foust and Jack Baur interview Gene Yang and Lark Pien of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxers_and_Saints">Boxers &amp; Saints</a>: </p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 28 Feb 2014 18:34:28 +0000Eileen O'Shea3487 at https://infopeople.orghttps://infopeople.org/blogs/eileen-oshea/library-comic-book-episode-6#commentsMichael Cart Talks about the Decline of Book Reviewshttps://infopeople.org/blogs/eileen-oshea/michael-cart-talks-about-decline-book-reviews
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href="/sites/default/files/podcasts/02-18-14_mcart.mp3"><img src="/sites/default/files/blue-podcast-2.gif" alt="podcast" width="70" height="22" /></a> In <a href="/sites/default/files/podcasts/02-18-14_mcart.mp3">this podcast</a>, Infopeople's own Michael Cart talks about, among other things, the decline and fall of the book review sections and book reviewers. He uses <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/opinion/sunday/the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-reader.html">this New York Times article</a> as a jumping off point for this conversation. Also discussed in this podcast: the current state of publishing and whether the Internet wrecking our ability to do serious reading. Mentioned in this latter disucssion: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/04/opinion/in-praise-of-offline-slow-reading.html">"In praise of (offline) slow reading."</a></p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:10:44 +0000Eileen O'Shea3486 at https://infopeople.orghttps://infopeople.org/blogs/eileen-oshea/michael-cart-talks-about-decline-book-reviews#commentsThe latest word(s) on healthcare insurancehttps://infopeople.org/blogs/francisca-goldsmith/latest-words-healthcare-insurance
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>There are six more weeks for Californians to enroll in the healthcare insurance marketplace during this <em>initial</em> open enrollment period. Now seems a good checkup time for public libraries to evaluate how well we have provided information and technology access to this Affordable Care Act program.</p>
<p>Have you and your staff been keeping up to date on changes, including regulations and scheduled online enrollment site down periods? The quickest and most efficient way to do that is by subscribing to and following <a href="https://twitter.com/CoveredCA" target="_blank">Covered California's Twitter feed</a>.</p>
<p>An announcement made there (and via other social media routes) last week alerts us all to the SHOP portal on the Covered California website coming down for the next several months. The explanatory <a href="http://news.coveredca.com/2014/02/covered-california-suspends-small.html" target="_blank">news release</a> includes the important detail that <em>paper</em> applications made for small business employer coverage will continue to be accepted and moved through the enrollment process during this period. Does your small business community know about this change?</p>
<p>In the first two months of the open enrollment period, public library staffs were reporting a generalized lack of inquiries from their communities regarding ACA. Interestingly, they also reported doing little in terms of public education--including such activities as hosting insurance education and health and wellness programs. Changes in the demographics of who can and does have health insurance points to new insurance users who may have little understanding of health insurance speak (for instance, the difference between co-pay and out of pocket costs) and need some basic math skill-building (to calculate and compare percentages). Many who previously relied on emergency rooms to provide any medical attention they identified for themselves as needing aren't experienced in how to discuss--and understand clearly--health information with a personal physician (for instance, the difference between a diagnostic test and a test related to a medical procedure). Has your adult literacy partner developed curriculum that addresses these needs to find educational help?</p>
<p>Six weeks ago, other components of the Affordable Care Act went into effect. As of January 1, very specific patient <a href="https://www.healthcare.gov/health-care-law-protections/" target="_blank">rights and protections</a> must be recognized, including an end to yearly and lifetime dollar limits an insurer will pay; free preventive care; mental health and substance abuse services coverage; and other details that can change how long-time insured people, as well as those new to health insurance coverage, when and how reliance on insurance provides new areas of care access. Do your communtiy members know about these changes already in effect? </p>
<p>While roll out of the health insurance enrollment regulations related to the Affordable Care Act has received lots of popular media coverage, digging below that surface of opinion to lay bare the information that still needs to reach your community is an ongoing project. </p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Blog Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog-tags/affordable-care-act" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">affordable care act</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/blog-tags/literacy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">literacy</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Blog Categories:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog-categories/affordable-care-act" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Affordable Care Act</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/blog-categories/literacy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">literacy</a></div></div></div>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:46:25 +0000Francisca Goldsmith3485 at https://infopeople.orghttps://infopeople.org/blogs/francisca-goldsmith/latest-words-healthcare-insurance#comments3D printing: replication or innovation @ your library?https://infopeople.org/blogs/francisca-goldsmith/3d-printing-replication-or-innovation-your-library
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Yesterday I sat down with a colleague who works at a public library where there is a <a href="http://www.halifaxcentrallibrary.ca/" target="_blank">Central Library construction project</a> well underway. In her role as the Emerging Technologies Manager she's attending both to current community needs and library resources and the steep planning toward features of the new facilities and services on the horizon. She's been amassing and working with staff around 3D printing equipment, of course. However, unlike the "maker" model we've both heard discussed in a large number of library programming contexts, <em>innovation</em> rather than <em>replication </em>is the primary value community access to 3D printing will target here. Library value to attach to replication opportunity isn't neglected. However, the focus in that vein is on intellectual property knowledge capacity building in both library staff and 3D printing members of the public, not how to make replicated consumables.</p>
<p>Promotion of the equipment targets the small business community for now (with expandion, of course, to other communities of interest coming).<em> </em>Prototype building for something new, rather than repeating what already is lines up well with the evolving nature of how the public library supports what the community wants to achieve, rather than suggesting that library--and 3D printer--use is the end in itself.</p>
<p>My colleague and I then turned to discussing a book (hey, we <em>are</em> librarieans) that <a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/01/29/carol-dweck-mindset/" target="_blank">Maria Popova had featured in this past weekend's <em>Brain Pickings</em> newsletter</a>. Carol S. Dweck's 2007 <strong>Mindset</strong> (Ballantine) discusses how the examination of twenty years of research suggests to Dr. Dweck that humans seem to develop, from earliest childhood, along one of two mindsets toward identity maintenace: those with a fixed mindset seek to demonstrate personal mastery by repeating efforts at which they know they have succeeded, while those with a growth mindset seek the same sense of wellbeing by trying new, yet unachieved efforts. The paradigm of 3D printing put to use for the purpose of replication and the alternative of its use for innovation took us even further in our musings.</p>
<p>According to Dr. Dweck's analysis, those with a growth mindset not only aren't personally interested in replicating what they have done successfully, they also have great difficulty understanding that the replication mode actually does authentically concern others, those with the fixed mindset. Of course, those with the fixed mindset might have just as little apprehension of the authentic focus on innovation suggested by those with the growth mindset. What might you be able to do with the knowledge if you were to evaluate not only which mindset is yours (by predilection, remember, not consciously chosen) but also which one moves members of your leadership team and your staff? Could a way forward be found for those battles between the "we've always done it this way" contingent and the "oh, let's try this" faction? Might just acknowledging that people do tend toward one mindset or the other, as a starting point, shed some light on how change management needs to be undertaken locally? How can we experience the same information about what different resource can "do," if we don't first understand how differently we may be defining "do"?</p>
<p>The new Central Library is now slated to open in November 2014. I plan to return to see it in all its glory, of course, but I plan on using the 3D printing resources then as well. I'm working on an innovation in bridge-building, a way to get bridge footers planted on both sides of the mindset alternative, the better to offer a way for the replicators and innovators to understand each others mindsets well enough to work with both in the evolving institution we call "library." </p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Blog Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog-tags/3d-printing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">3D printing</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/blog-tags/books" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">books</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Blog Categories:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog-categories/library-culture" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Library Culture</a></div></div></div>Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:25:20 +0000Francisca Goldsmith3482 at https://infopeople.orghttps://infopeople.org/blogs/francisca-goldsmith/3d-printing-replication-or-innovation-your-library#commentsIn the library with a comic book, episode 5https://infopeople.org/blogs/eileen-oshea/library-comic-book-episode-5
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img src="/sites/default/files/blue-podcast-2.gif" alt="podcast icon" width="70" height="22" /> In <a href="http://inthelibrarywithacomicbook.org/post/74332253398/in-episode-5-jack-and-amanda-discuss-image-expo#_=_">episode 5 of their podcast series</a> "In the Library with a Comic Book," Jack and Amanda discuss <a href="https://imagecomics.com/expo/">Image Expo 2014</a>. Also included: an interview with Nick Dragotta, author of <em>East of West</em> and <em>Howtoons</em>. This podcast is 35 minutes long.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Blog Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog-tags/podcasts" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">podcasts</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/blog-tags/comic-books" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">comic books</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog-tags/graphic-novels" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">graphic novels</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/blog-tags/image-expo-2014" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">image expo 2014</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Blog Categories:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog-categories/infopeople-podcasts" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Infopeople Podcasts</a></div></div></div>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:13:18 +0000Eileen O'Shea3481 at https://infopeople.orghttps://infopeople.org/blogs/eileen-oshea/library-comic-book-episode-5#commentsMore for your healthcare info hungry communityhttps://infopeople.org/blogs/francisca-goldsmith/more-your-healthcare-info-hungry-community
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href="http://news.coveredca.com/2014/01/covered-california-consumers-can-now.html" target="_blank">Covered California consumers can now use a quality rating system when choosing a health care plan</a> is the latest big news about the state's Affordable Care Act insurance market site. Reading the full story shows there is some real substance behnd the headline:</p>
<ul><li>The scoring comes from the <a href="http://www.ahrq.gov/cahps/about-cahps/index.html" target="_blank">Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems</a></li>
<li>Input for the scoring derives from consumers of each healthcare plan, who were asked about features ranging from ease of getting doctor appointments to medical care and customer service</li>
<li>The availability of such a scoring system is a requirement of ACA's rollout, but this one isn't a required accomplishment at the state level until 2016, so California is actually way ahead of schedule and plans to continue to tweak it as more data becomes available</li>
<li>Each healthcare plan offered through Covered California is assessed and rated according to how it stacks up against all such plans offered throughout the <em>Western United States</em>, so comparison evaluation outstrips the in-state options</li>
<li>And the rating is expressed with a four-star shorthand, with four stars indicating the plan is in the top quartile of the plans evaluated, three stars indicating the plan is as good as those ranking between 50% and 75% on the scale of 100% satisfaction, two stars for the third quartile (25%-50%) and one star for those with the bottom quartile ranking</li>
</ul><p>This kind of information can also serve as a reminder that healthcare and health insurance are huge areas of literacy need. Using the Affordable Care Act's requirements to design both adult and family literacy directions and programming can provide high value to your community. Learning to understand the "insurance speak" of co-pyay and deductibles, and the math understanding required to make judicious use of aligning this quality rating system with affordability are just two literacy training areas to consider. Like other aspects of the laws and regulations around ACA, the public library's potential to demystify and educate can be parlayed into demonstrating the high value of the library itself to your community.</p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Blog Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog-tags/affordable-care-act" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">affordable care act</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/blog-tags/literacy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">literacy</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Blog Categories:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog-categories/affordable-care-act" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Affordable Care Act</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/blog-categories/literacy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">literacy</a></div></div></div>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:18:17 +0000Francisca Goldsmith3480 at https://infopeople.orghttps://infopeople.org/blogs/francisca-goldsmith/more-your-healthcare-info-hungry-community#commentsReach out to community-based expertshttps://infopeople.org/blogs/francisca-goldsmith/reach-out-community-based-experts
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Earlier this week I had an opportunity to learn from an organization that has a lot to teach California public library staff about their comunities. While <a href="http://www.healthycity.org/" target="_blank">HealthyCity</a> primarily focuses on public health related matters concerning communities who are frequently untapped as information resources (and underserved by bureaucracies), both their tools and methodologies have much to offer us as information facilitators. Currently HealthyCity is providing <a href="http://www.healthycity.org/c/au/sc/page_view/p/calendar" target="_blank">onground--and free!--training</a> around the state; their website, however, has a deep and wide suite of <a href="http://www.healthycity.org/direct.project_file/Guide.pdf" target="_self">practical guidance</a> for those who can't leave home or work.</p>
<p>One of the huge take aways I have from the in person training is a set of new skills for working collaboratively with community specialists. Nope, I don't mean reps from other community serving agencies. The trainers made the (correct) assumption that those of us gathered felt comfortable collabrating across agencies: librarians with social workers, child caseworkers with nutrition advocates, community organizers with civic government. Instead, they offered modelling of inclusive collaboration with the very community experts so many librarians aren't sure how to approach, let alone might forget that they have essential and pertinent insights we can't conduct true community research without. Instead of taking expertise to the community--and expecting it to be recognized--we learned how to allow community members to share their onground wisdom of community assets and disconnects. We can sit inside the library and see that there is a large park on the map of the community. We can go to the regional park website and read about the park's amenities. However, by asking those who live near the park to join us there to take a walk and record what we see and then ask questions of the locals gives us a more expert and honest view: the basketball hoops aren't used because the court is littered with glass that the park service cleans only weekly; the kids' playground has excellent water fountains--but it's the only point in the park where the plumbing works reliably; there are picnic benches in attractive areas, all noting "No alcohol," but the only stores on the edge of the park are liquor stores....that's a scenario, but you can see from it, I think, how much more we have to learn from the community as experts than we do from our own library-vetted resources.</p>
<p>To get a better idea of the technical learning that came out of the onground training, you can scan <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%22assetmapping&amp;src=typd" target="_blank">Infotweets</a> for remarks. Or you can jump right into the <a href="http://www.healthycity.org/c/au/sc/page_view/p/helpCenter" target="_blank">video tutorials</a> on the HealthyCity site. Just one caveat: approach community expert research humbly. As library folk we know how to find out just about anything. Yes, we are a community asset. And yet, we don't necessarily live the experiences of the community where we work; the community's members are the experts about that.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Blog Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog-tags/library-training" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">library training</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Blog Categories:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog-categories/training" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Training</a></div></div></div>Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:49:08 +0000Francisca Goldsmith3476 at https://infopeople.orghttps://infopeople.org/blogs/francisca-goldsmith/reach-out-community-based-experts#commentsMichael Cart talks about the New Adulthttps://infopeople.org/blogs/eileen-oshea/michael-cart-talks-about-new-adult
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href="/sites/default/files/podcasts/01-05-14_mcart.mp3"><img src="/sites/default/files/blue-podcast-2.gif" alt="podcast" width="70" height="22" /></a> In <a href="/sites/default/files/podcasts/01-05-14_mcart.mp3">this podcast</a>, Infopeople’s book "observer" Michael Cart offers an in-depth look at the New Adult. What’s that? Well, they’re related to "kidults." Listen and find out lots more!</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Blog Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog-tags/podcast" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">podcast</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/blog-tags/michael-cart" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Michael Cart</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Blog Categories:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog-categories/infopeople-podcasts" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Infopeople Podcasts</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/blog-categories/michael-cart" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Michael Cart</a></div></div></div>Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:12:54 +0000Eileen O'Shea3469 at https://infopeople.orghttps://infopeople.org/blogs/eileen-oshea/michael-cart-talks-about-new-adult#commentsRemembering to question what you knowhttps://infopeople.org/blogs/francisca-goldsmith/remembering-question-what-you-know
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Over the course of 2013, I read about a gross of books (probably equally distributed among the platforms of published paper, yet-to-be-published paper galley, ebook [both Kindle and iBook], and with my ears). It was a relatively light reading year for me and I even had several opportunities to make selections based on purely personal grounds (It's the "purely" in there that is unusual for me). However, as December 31 rolled into January 1, I could pronounce the hands down "winner" in my reading year: Samuel Arbesman's <em><a href="http://www.arbesman.net/the-half-life-of-facts/about-book/" target="_blank">The Half-life of Facts</a> </em>enlightens me daily, even though I gobbled it up months ago.</p>
<p>Arbesman, a scientist, walks readers through a wholly accessible and skillfully scaffolded exploration of how we retain "facts" long past their due date, or information about their debunking spreads. This "half-life" is personal, with variance from person to person, and cultural. Especially as adults of iddle age, we know what we know. But we also tend to have formed rigorous <em>beliefs</em> about knowing that we know. Do you know full well that Pluto isn't a planet, and yet "feel" as though "really" it is?</p>
<p>Applying this to the library, and to people who use the library: Do we know that we know what is important that we provide them? And applying this to the library, and the people who work in the library: Do we know that they know what is expected that they know in order to provide the community what is important? In Infopeople's Core Reference Fundamentals course, I am lucky to have the opportunity to discuss basic library tenets straight on twice a year, with cohorts of 50-75 library people in all stages of career and all ages of adulthood. This allows me to see the half-lives of a whole smorgasbord of facts--both arising from the group and in my own initial takes on the assertions of one member or another in the group. Some participants work in libraries where the outmoded "fact" that public internet access is "extra" and beyond what a community information and cultural resource needs to provide. Some are sure of the "fact" that homeless people are by definition behavior problems, a "fact" of a little "fact" nest: to be homeless is to be mentally ill and to be mentally ill is to exhibit disruptive behavior.</p>
<p>Of course, when it's asserted that way, the logical fallacies get up on their tap shoes and dance. And that is part of Arbesman's message: sometims, just by pausing to investigate logically, we can see where the "fact" leaves off and the belief begins.</p>
<p>And sometimes, we need to remember to ask ourselves: am I sure that I'm making this decision with factual information, or am I relying on the half-life of a fact that has been debunked?</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Blog Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog-tags/reading-world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">reading the world</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Blog Categories:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog-categories/miscellaneous" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">miscellaneous</a></div></div></div>Thu, 02 Jan 2014 19:22:49 +0000Francisca Goldsmith3464 at https://infopeople.orghttps://infopeople.org/blogs/francisca-goldsmith/remembering-question-what-you-know#commentsIn the library with a comic bookhttps://infopeople.org/blogs/eileen-oshea/library-comic-book
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href="/sites/default/files/podcasts/12-23-13_foust_baur.mp3"><img src="/sites/default/files/blue-podcast-2.gif" alt="podcast" width="70" height="22" /></a> Infopeople is happy to introduce a new podcast series that we will be posting on this blog and to our iTunes channel: <strong><a href="http://inthelibrarywithacomicbook.org/podcasts#_=_">In the library with a comic book</a></strong>. This new series actually comes out of the brains of Eureka! Fellows Jack Baur and Amanda Jacobs Foust. A bit about them and the podcast:</p>
<blockquote><p>Jack Baur is a Teen Services Librarian at the Berkeley Public Library who discovered he could parlay his longtime love of comic books into a legitimate career niche, paving the way for much of what's happened since. Jack likes comics, and since he's been a Teen Librarian, he's written several articles, a chapter in Genreflecting, gone to conventions and provided trainings about using comics in the library. Jack wants to show librarians what makes good comics good, and help them learn how to select for comics collections and really serve their readers. He's an active member and past president of the Bay Area Young Adult Librarians (BAYA) and a 2012 Eureka! Leadership Fellow.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Amanda Jacobs Foust is the Electronic Services Librarian for Marin County Free Library (MCFL), where she began her career as a Teen Librarian at the Novato Library.<br />Despite her work in Electronics Services, Amanda remains dedicated and active in regards to youth services. She is a Voices of Youth Advocate (VOYA) reviewer who is still active in BAYA. She is also a 2009 Eureka! Leadership Fellow.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Jack and Amanda connected about comics on a BART ride home from a BAYA meeting. Together they have presented and written about comics since 2010. </p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>In the Library with a Comic Book is produced by Donna Mettier of the Marin County Free Library. Contact them with questions at <a href="mailto:inthelibrarywithcomicbook@gmail.com">inthelibrarywithcomicbook@gmail.com</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>So with that introduction, here is <a href="/sites/default/files/podcasts/12-23-13_foust_baur.mp3">their most recent podcast</a> in which they chat about Neil Gaiman's <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman_(Vertigo)">The Sandman</a></em> and answer email with recommendations.</p>
<p>You can read more about this podcast and keep up with all of Jack and Amanda's comic book news at their blog,<a href="http://inthelibrarywithacomicbook.org/#_=_"> In the library with a comic book</a>.</p>
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